Scientists are tracking a marine heat wave reminiscent of the one that formed in the northeast Pacific from 2014 to 2016, memorably dubbed the Blob.
Cisco Werner, the chief science advisor for the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration’s fisheries division, warned of the heat wave at a conference on the ocean’s role in sustainable food supply which took place on 16 September at the University of California, Davis.
“The first heat wave, nobody even knew what it was when it happened. And we learned a great deal,” Werner said during his keynote address at the conference. “We’re watching this one very closely, this one that’s happening now.”
In his keynote, Werner also gave a broad overview of the state of fisheries around the world, and the upcoming trends that the seafood industry will confront in the coming years…